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Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

Ever since the Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK was announced a couple of months ago, many people have asked when there would be a solution for WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 to authenticate Windows Live ID users. Well, it didn't take long for Keith Bunge, a developer with Solanite Consulting and contractor extraordinaire to several SharePoint projects at Microsoft, to develop a solution and actually dogfood it on his own blog site. I quickly recruited him to join the CKS project, and he has subsequently updated the initial version of his solution to be released now as CKS: Windows Live Authentication.

The CKS:WLA is a membership provider that extends the SharePoint user base to include some of the 350+ million users around the world with active Windows Live IDs. It enables an administrator to add Windows Live ID users to a SharePoint site and provides a new “Authenticated Live Users” group that can be added to a SharePoint site via the People and Groups admin page.

This initial version of the CKS:WLA provider has the following features:

  • Windows Live ID authentication supported directly in SharePoint.
  • Ability to add and resolve a WLID user using an e-mail address as shown below -- note that my e-mail address gets resolve to my WLID "PUID."
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  • "Authenticated Live Users" group, which works just like the built-in "NT_AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" group that can be used for any SharePoint access control list.
  • Ability to lock or blacklist a WLID user as shown below.
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  • “Windows Live Authentication Setting Sync” Feature at the site collection level, which upon being activated, will synchronize WLID user information to all site collections that have the feature activated, so the users will not have to register again for each new site collection they access.

The CKS:WLA solution is available at https://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=CKS&ReleaseId=7746. Please provide feedback prefixed with "WLA" via the CKS Issue Tracker (for reproducible bug reports) or the CKS Discussions list (for Q&A and discussions).

 

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Published Monday, October 15, 2007 2:29 PM by sptblog

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# Techy News Blog &raquo; Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

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Monday, October 15, 2007 5:35 PM by Techy News Blog » Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

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Monday, October 15, 2007 9:54 PM by Christopher Steen

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Monday, October 15, 2007 9:55 PM by Christopher Steen

# Grandi novità per i Community Kits per SharePoint

Già diverso tempo fa ho segnalato il rilascio su Codeplex del Community Kit per SharePoint. Ora segnalo

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:15 PM by Igor Macori

# Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

Interesting point at blogs.msdn.com

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:25 AM by Tester

# re: Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

The point of having the Live IDs (email) get resolved to a PUID makes it difficult in user management isn't it?

In case I need to remove user permission or change access rights for a specific user, do I then to acquire the user Live ID PUID (I don't know how to do this anyway) to be able to perform these user management operations?

Appreciated.

Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:59 AM by kelhossainy

# re: Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

The thing to keep in mind with the e-mail resolution is that it is actually allowing you to add users (and permissions) without needing to get the PUID from them.  As for finding which PUID to use for removing users (or permissions) for that you would either be able to view the display name that they have provided, or you can do a look up based on the e-mail in a user field and that will tell you what the PUID is.

It might not be ideal, however the PUID is the only identifier that we can be sure of when dealing with the authenticated user so it pretty much has to be used as the login id.

Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:26 PM by Keith Bunge

# SharePoint Kaffeetasse 25

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Monday, October 22, 2007 6:40 AM by SharePoint, SharePoint and stuff

# re: Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

Hi..

Its always showing the PUID insted of the name. Is there any way I can show the name insted of PUID as we cant show the PUID to the user.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:51 PM by Sunil

# re: Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

are there any licensing limitations to do that in WSS 3.0? do i need Windows Server External Connector license?

Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:18 PM by uk4

# WSS 3.0 & MOSS: Recopilación de enlaces interesantes (XIX)

Después de algún tiempo sin postear el habitual recopilatorio de recursos interesantes de WSS 3.0 &amp;

Monday, October 29, 2007 3:48 AM by Blog del CIIN

# SPPD079 SharePointPodcast

Direkter Download: SPPD-079-2007-11-01 Aktuell Linkssammlung Zielgruppen SharePoint Backup und Restore

Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:37 AM by SharePoint, SharePoint and stuff

# SPPD079 SharePointPodcast

Direkter Download: SPPD-079-2007-11-01 Aktuell Linkssammlung Zielgruppen SharePoint Backup und Restore

Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:39 AM by SharePointPodcast.de

# Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication

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Monday, November 12, 2007 3:28 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

# Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication

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Monday, November 12, 2007 3:35 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

# Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication

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Monday, November 12, 2007 3:41 AM by Noticias externas

# re: Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

HI,

I am unable to resolve a WLID user by giving email id.

Its always showing the PUID instead of the name. Is there any way I can show the name instead of PUID as we cant show the PUID to the user.

Please let me know if something i am missing.Its very urgent.

Thanks

Monday, November 12, 2007 3:50 AM by SDR

# [MOSS] Autenticacion utilizando Windows Live ID

Buenas hace un tiempo se anunciaba un posible set de componentes que permitían integrar el modelo de

Monday, November 12, 2007 8:24 AM by El Bruno

# [MOSS] Autenticacion utilizando Windows Live ID

Buenas hace un tiempo se anunciaba un posible set de componentes que permitían integrar el modelo de

Monday, November 12, 2007 8:24 AM by El Bruno

# [MOSS] Autenticacion utilizando Windows Live ID

Buenas hace un tiempo se anunciaba un posible set de componentes que permitían integrar el modelo de

Monday, November 12, 2007 8:24 AM by El Bruno

# [MOSS] Autenticacion utilizando Windows Live ID

Buenas hace un tiempo se anunciaba un posible set de componentes que permitían integrar el modelo...

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:55 PM by El Bruno

# SPPD079 SharePointPodcast

Direkter Download: SPPD-079-2007-11-01 Aktuell Linkssammlung Zielgruppen SharePoint Backup und Restore

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:58 PM by Mirrored Blogs

# re: Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

Can any one tell me how to use WLID authentication  in MOSS 2007

Friday, January 18, 2008 1:51 AM by Raj

# re: Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

am new to sharepoint... i tried the method given above. i dont know how to add live id users.Should i add each and every user?Right now am getting error access denied message

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:06 AM by Jennifer

# re: Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!

Hi

After following all the steps as mentioned in the ReadME of http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=7746 for installing and configuring Windows Live Authentication 1.0, how to go the screen capture you mentioned in this blog, can you please guide me?

Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:22 AM by Vivek

# Sign out issue

I have successfully installed the CSK:WLA modules into my SharePoint site and sign on works great. But sign out doesn't work. My site differs from Keith's own site in that Keith allows anonymous users to access his site whereas I don't. Using the debugger the sign out process appears to call FormsAuthentication.SignOut() OK, but when control is passed to the LiveID site it immediately redirects back to my liveauth-handler without waiting for me to sign in again. This happens regardless of whether I select "Sign out" or "Sign in as a different user". It's almost as if the cookie that LiveID sets up isn't being cleared.

Any thoughts anyone?

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:53 AM by Michael Brooks

# Windows Live Authentication Query

Live authentication is another revolution to Form Based Authentication. I tried each and every step from the document given on codeplex but the usrs are not resolving when i tried to search in people picker. Solution has been deployed successfully and also the feature has been activated successfully but still there is some problem.can anybody help regardig any solid document for step by step configuration?

Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:38 AM by Amol Ghuge

# Another implementation of Windows Live Authentication for SharePoint

Hi

You can use Shetab Windows Live Authentication for SharePoint, it is another implementation of Integration Windows Live ID with SharePoint.

You windows live users cant sign-in to your site without entering valid email address.

Functionality

Windows Live ID authentication supported directly in SharePoint (Same as CKS Project).

Ability to add and resolve a Windows Live User using an e-mail addresses (Same as CKS Project).

"Authenticated Live Users" Role, which works just like the built-in "NT_AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" Role (Same as CKS Project).

"Validated Live Users" Role, which includes all users with verified e-mail.

Ability to lock or blacklist a Windows Live User list (Same as CKS Project).

“Windows Live Authentication Profile Sync” Feature to sync Live User profile to other SharePoint Site (Same as CKS Project).

Log all sign-in time of Window Live User.

Compatibility

Ability to specify a Windows Live User by email to become site owner after sign in.

Treat SharePoint Group as Roles so you can also add SharePoint Group to another group.

Automatic resource access assignment by e-mail or serial number before a Windows Live User sign up.

Allows you to authenticate and authorize users for IIS Virtual Directory with FTP access.

Delegate system that sharing Windows Live ID to more than one SharePoint web application and other IIS web application.

Compatibility

Configuration parameters is compatible with CKS Windows Live Authentication system.

Compatible with Windows SharePoint 3.0 And Office SharePoint Server 2007

Compatible with other Authentication system such as Windows Authentication and Form Authentication in same site.

Compatible with SharePoint site with both anonymous enabled and non anonymous enabled.

Support 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

General

Easy Installation.

Multilanguage Support.

Complete Source Code.

Online Support.

See http://www.shetabtech.com/english/wla for more information

Saturday, February 07, 2009 4:24 AM by madnik7

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